Everyone counts to the Big Brother!

[zurt]

Microsoft is so kind and friendly that takes into consideration the problems you encounter when browsing MSN's web site. That is why they've prepared a bug reporting form from where you can specify the browser you're using as well as the OS you're running in your machine.

The surprise comes when you can select from this drop down list systems as unusual as BeOS, Amiga, NeXT or even Commodore.

Check it out here

[redrumloa]

Apparently Amiga and Commodore was put in there just to make the list look large, but you can tell VERY fast how hollow M$ is. Sure you can choose Amiga, but then you are stuck! There is no selection in the drop down menu for any Amiga browser. You have to make a selection of browser, so if you choose IE5 and Amiga you probably will get an automated email saying this browser is not available for that computer, please go back to school.

What gets me is the inclusion of Commodore. They must mean C64/128. Surely M$ would never think in their wildest dreams that a C64 or 128 would have a tcp/ip stack, let alone a webbrowser. But of course it does.

One more reason M$ sucks.

[Crispy_Beef]

> Surely M$ would never think in their wildest
> dreams that a C64 or 128 would have a
> tcp/ip stack, let alone a webbrowse

I wouldn't laugh too much, I remember reading a while back that somebody had actually written a TCP/IP stack for the C64 and had an email client and limited web browser too.  Some people just can't let go ;-)

[System]

There is a TCP/IP stack for the C64, also several email clients and a web browser.. I even came across an WYSIWYG HTML editor (seriously), heh..

[redrumloa]

Actually you missed my comment..

>But of course it does.

I do know it does, actually more than one. The most popular seems to be with the 'Wheels' OS, it has it's own tcp/ip and it's own Web Browser 'The Wave'. The way I see it a bone stock C64 would be a bit painfull to try to browse the web with gfx enabled. However the C128 in 80 column mode and a SuperCPU accelerator actually sounds fun.

I've always wanted to build a beefed up C128, maybe I'll finally do it when Maurice Randall gets CMDs old products back into production.. Hopefully he will drop the prices a wee bit..

[System]

you took the words right out of my mouth.

[System]

Don't know why you would bother, it takes just as long to load windoze these days as it takes to kick up geos.

which remindes me.. is geoworks still around?

[redrumloa]

Actually it depends on what hardware you are using. If you are booting Geos/Wheels from a harddrive or Ramlink on a C128/64, you would be up and running within seconds where Windows takes minutes. I doubt there are many users out there trying to access the internet on a bone stock C=ommie with a Vic1541 disk drive;-)

The last I heard of Geoworks was that they were focusing on embedded systems, I know that because my sister bought stock in them and the stock did terrible:-/ The rights for the Commodore version of Geos is owned by Maurice Randall, and he has been doing major(but slow) upgrades to it, hi version is what is now called Wheels.

Neat stuff, I need to set another C128 up...

[Chathurawind]

i remember some dude set up a webserver on
c64, with a serial link to his computer/adsl connection

ofcoz it was overloaded and removed as it appeard
on slashdot

[System]

(CYNIC) Yea, well hopefully they aren't just collecting knowledge on what web page code doesn't work on what browsers, so that they can then abuse that web code to prevent non-IE browsers from working on more pages. Or even build such incompatibility code into the web pages their editors generate to make other people's web pages MSIE only as well... (/CYNIC)

[JetRacer]

They probably just do it to find out where to focus their marketing and what companies to kill next.

[Chathurawind]

I think so. Their main aim with this information is set which is the next target to vampirise.

Actually, my sister uses my Amiga (Miami + SSL extensions + IBrowse spoofing as Netscape) to read her mail at her hotmail.com's account. And she told me she likes much more the way Amiga accesses to the Internet that my Wintel box does.

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